Oh goodie, we can have free trade with the USA

[BlasterBates]

oh dear

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-lots-of-ways

The U.S. aerospace giant sells Apache attack helicopters, Chinook transports and surveillance planes to the British military but a retaliation wouldn’t be straightforward: Boeing employs more than 2,200 people in the U.K., who could be hit by the loss of contracts.

[shaunbhoy]

Bombardier is a Canadian company - the CSeries jet is a Canadian designed and built jet. The wings are made in Belfast.

This isn't a UK-US dispute, this is a US-Canada dispute (Bombardier has built a superior aeroplane in competition with the Boeing 737, but Bombardier needed a rescue package from the Canadian government). The UK is involved because it is part of the supply chain.

As for free trade with the US, do we really want that? The UK already has a trade surplus with the US, the US will only give us an FTC if it helps them narrow that gap.

Don't go confusing them with the realities of the situation. Many of them are getting low on dry underpants!

[WTFH]

...but, but, but we must have a trade agreement with the US, most important thing, for years the EU have stopped us, etc.

Keep on spinning.

[stek]

Is there a European-based trade bloc with no tariffs we could join?

[The_Equalizer]

Is there a European-based trade bloc with no tariffs we could join?

You already have my son. Just be happy with that.

[woohoo]

Is there a European-based trade bloc with no tariffs we could join?

Sure is, you just have to pay a few billion each year for the privilege, have your laws made elsewhere. Oh and goods from outside of this euro-based trade bloc will be more expensive because tariffs have to be added to them.

[The_Equalizer]

Sure is, you just have to pay a few billion each year for the privilege, have your laws made elsewhere. Oh and goods from outside of this euro-based trade bloc will be more expensive because tariffs have to be added to them.

You've missed the bit about the obvious and serious flaws in the shared currency.

[stek]

Sure is, you just have to pay a few billion each year for the privilege, have your laws made elsewhere. Oh and goods from outside of this euro-based trade bloc will be more expensive because tariffs have to be added to them.

Any we could put that money into the NHS!!

[NigelJK]

Oddly we are STILL an member of this organisation so why suddenly are we on our own? Isn't this an EU trade dispute?

[BlasterBates]

Sure is, you just have to pay a few billion each year for the privilege, have your laws made elsewhere. Oh and goods from outside of this euro-based trade bloc will be more expensive because tariffs have to be added to them.

That's right, that's why we voted to leave the EU and in March 2019 we won't pay a penny more into it, nor will we be bound by the rules.